Module 1: AWS Security Overview

Shared responsibility model
Customer challenges
Frameworks and standards
Establishing best practices
Compliance in AWS
Module 2: Securing the Network

Flexible and secure
Security inside the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
Security services
Third-party security solutions
Module 3: Amazon EC2 Security

Compute hardening
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) encryption
Secure management and maintenance
Detecting vulnerabilities
Using AWS Marketplace
Module 4: Monitoring and Alerting

Logging network traffic
Logging user and Application Programming Interface (API) traffic
Visibility with Amazon CloudWatch
Enhancing monitoring and alerting
Verifying your AWS environment

Lab Outlines

Lab 1: Controlling the Network

Create a three-security zone network infrastructure.
Implement network segmentation using security groups, Network Access Control Lists (NACLs), and public and private subnets.
Monitor network traffic to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances using VPC flow logs.

Lab 2: Securing the starting point (EC2)

Create a custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI).
Deploy a new EC2 instance from a custom AMI.
Patch an EC2 instance using AWS Systems Manager.
Encrypt an EBS volume.
Understand how EBS encryption works and how it impacts other operations.
Use security groups to limit traffic between EC2 instances to only that which is encrypted.

Lab 3: Security Monitoring

Configure an Amazon Linux 2 instance to send log files to Amazon CloudWatch.
Create Amazon CloudWatch alarms and notifications to monitor for failed login attempts.
Create Amazon CloudWatch alarms to monitor network traffic through a Network Address Translation (NAT) gateway